Best ways to analyze application performance?

[Tapani Paelli]

ext Clemens Eisserer wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I would describe myself as a ui-performance fanatism and x11 newbie
>but everybody needs to get started with something sometimes ;-)
>
>I am very interrested in helping some some open source UI toolkits and
>applications in tuning their interfaces  - however I come from the
>java-world where a profiler (thanks to the vm) was everything needed
>to see the problematic areas of an application.
>
>Do special tools exist for measuring performance of x11 based
>applications? If not, which profiler would you recommend for tuning
>x11 based applications?
>  
>
You could try 'xresponse', http://projects.o-hand.com/xresponse/. With 
xresponse you can submit mouse clicks (and even drags). As a result you 
will get timestamps based on damage-events and info on updated areas so 
you can figure out what part of the UI was updated.

>I would be also interrested in reading some artciles/tutorials about
>X11 performance in general (tipps, tricks and theorie) does anybody
>know such tutorials or articles? (not targeted to x11 purists ;-) )
>
>
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>

// Tapani